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<div align=justify>Everyone of us would like to have a site. The reasons may differ: just to try yourself in site creation; create a site for your family or friends; start business on-line. Nowadays there is a huge variety of software, programs, tools to create a site. Some of them require basic knowledge of site building technologies, others can be used by anyone without any difficulties. | <div align=justify>Everyone of us would like to have a site. The reasons may differ: just to try yourself in site creation; create a site for your family or friends; start business on-line. Nowadays there is a huge variety of software, programs, tools to create a site. Some of them require basic knowledge of site building technologies, others can be used by anyone without any difficulties. | ||
| − | I have also run into the difficulty of choosing a tool that would be easy in use and wouldn't require any complicated actions to create a nice-looking and proper functional site. After making a list of possible site building tools and considering a great number of pros and cons I have chosen wiki (also known as MediaWiki). The reason for | + | I have also run into the difficulty of choosing a tool that would be easy in use and wouldn't require any complicated actions to create a nice-looking and proper functional site. After making a list of possible site building tools and considering a great number of pros and cons I have chosen wiki (also known as MediaWiki). The reason for our choice were as follows: |
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- it allows to create a database-driven site, which is useful to keep the data properly organized; | - it allows to create a database-driven site, which is useful to keep the data properly organized; | ||
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- it is easy to install and manage; | - it is easy to install and manage; | ||
- you can choose the desired skin and easily change it to another one when needed; | - you can choose the desired skin and easily change it to another one when needed; | ||
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To start working with wiki, you need to have a registered domain name and sign up for hosting. Domain name is needed to create a site for it and hosting provides the space on a web server for your site to be available to all Internet users. | To start working with wiki, you need to have a registered domain name and sign up for hosting. Domain name is needed to create a site for it and hosting provides the space on a web server for your site to be available to all Internet users. | ||
| − | Frankly speaking, when I started working with wiki I doubted | + | Frankly speaking, when I started working with wiki I doubted our original choice. But gradually I've made sure that it was the best decision made. |
First of all you need to download the wiki installation from the net. The best source of mediawiki installation is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download | First of all you need to download the wiki installation from the net. The best source of mediawiki installation is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download | ||
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Let's take some examples for you to see how easy mediawiki is. | Let's take some examples for you to see how easy mediawiki is. | ||
| − | To center a wiki skin you need to edit the file called 'main.css' located in skins/your_skin/ folder and replace the code: | + | To center a wiki skin you need to edit the file called '' 'main.css' '' located in ''skins/your_skin/'' folder and replace the code: |
| − | #globalWrapper { | + | #globalWrapper { |
| − | font-size: 127%; | + | font-size: 127%; |
| − | width: 100%; | + | width: 100%; |
| − | margin: 0; padding: 0;} | + | margin: 0; padding: 0;} |
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| − | #globalWrapper { | + | #globalWrapper { |
| − | position:relative; | + | position:relative; |
| − | font-size: 127%; | + | font-size: 127%; |
| − | width: 900px; | + | width: 900px; |
| − | margin-left:auto; | + | margin-left:auto; |
| − | margin-right:auto; | + | margin-right:auto; |
| − | padding: 0; | + | padding: 0; |
| − | } | + | } |
This will set the width of your site to 900px. This can be replaced with the proper value for each particular site. | This will set the width of your site to 900px. This can be replaced with the proper value for each particular site. | ||
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| + | '''''Note: replace 'your_skin' with your actual skin name (e.g. MonoBook)''''' | ||
Another example is how to hide/remove the toolbox. By default the mediawiki sites have two blocks called 'navigation' and 'toolbar'. Numerous forums are dedicated to the issue with toolbar removal. You are the luckiest as I will provide you with fast and simple solution. | Another example is how to hide/remove the toolbox. By default the mediawiki sites have two blocks called 'navigation' and 'toolbar'. Numerous forums are dedicated to the issue with toolbar removal. You are the luckiest as I will provide you with fast and simple solution. | ||
So, to remove the toolbox from a mediwiki site you need to complete the below steps: | So, to remove the toolbox from a mediwiki site you need to complete the below steps: | ||
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| − | #p-tb { display: none !important; } | + | '''1.''' add the following line to your main.css file: |
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| + | #p-tb { display: none !important; } | ||
| − | 2. Remove the following line from your_skin.php file located within 'skins' folder: | + | '''2.''' Remove the following line from your_skin.php file located within 'skins' folder: |
| − | if ( !isset( $sidebar['TOOLBOX'] ) ) $sidebar['TOOLBOX'] = true; | + | if ( !isset( $sidebar['TOOLBOX'] ) ) $sidebar['TOOLBOX'] = true; |
| − | Note: replace 'your_skin' with your actual skin name (e.g. MonoBook.php) | + | '''''Note: replace 'your_skin' with your actual skin name (e.g. MonoBook.php)''''' |
That's it! Quite easy, isn't it? | That's it! Quite easy, isn't it? | ||
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